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264 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
"A French author, (says the Magazine of Knowledge
for 1791 , p. 37,) the late celebrated Count de Buffon,
had himself taken notice of the same seventh planet,
much before Herschel, but then it was in a work which
he took almost word for word from Swedenborg without
mentioning his name."
But the greatest discovery that Swedenborg has made,
is the Doctrine of Discrete Degrees, and the Science of
Correspondences, by which the human mind is gifted
.
with wings to soar into regions of intelligence and wisdom,
hitherto unexplored and unknown, by which the relation
between things spiritual and things natural is explained,
and the spiritual sense of the Word of God unfolded, on
principles as fixed as the very laws by which creation is
so wisely governed. But for a specific explanation of the
Doctrine of Discrete Degrees, see his work entitled
Angelic Wisdom_concerning the Divine Love and
Wisdom, Third Part ; and for an exposition of the
Science of Correspondences, see his work on Heaven
and Hell, 87-115.
TESTIMONY
OF
THE LATE REV. JOHN CLOWES, A.M.,
FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND RECTOR OF ST. JOHN’S,
MANCHESTER,
IN FAVOR OF SWEDENBORG’S THEOLOGICAL
WRITINGS.
We shall conclude this volume of " Documents, &c.
concerning Swedenborg" by adducing the testimony of
this highly venerated clergyman. In a Memoir* written
* See Memoir of the late Rev. J. Clowes, A.M., Rector of St.
John’s, Manchester, &c.; written by himself.
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